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Even if you did all that Google will track you. Whether they match up all your identities or not is another story.



Bring a laptop from your home back to your folks place and I bet they can make the connection...


No doubt whatsoever. A lot of those "Facebook is listening to my conversation" claims come from the fact that they'll associate people based on network locations, IPs, etc.

For example: You're at your friends house with the Facebook app, your friend clicks on an ad for socks. The next day you start seeing ads for socks despite not having any sock-related activity. This is just an oversimplified example.




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